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Automation Support for Monitoring

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Ensure the accuracy, currency, and availability of monitoring results for the system using [automated mechanisms].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Using automated tools for monitoring helps to maintain the accuracy, currency, and availability of monitoring information which in turns helps to increase the level of ongoing awareness of the system security and privacy posture in support of organizational risk management decisions.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for CA-7(6) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. automated mechanisms used to ensure the accuracy, currency, and availability of monitoring results for the system are defined;
  2. <CA-07(06)_ODP automated mechanisms> are used to ensure the accuracy, currency, and availability of monitoring results for the system.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Assessment, authorization, and monitoring policy; organizational continuous monitoring strategy; system-level continuous monitoring strategy; procedures addressing continuous monitoring of system controls; assessment report; plan of action and milestones; system monitoring records; impact analyses; status reports; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with continuous monitoring responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting automated monitoring].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CA-7 — see the CA-7(6) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (4)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (4)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (4)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for CA-7(6). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.

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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • Assessment, authorization, and monitoring policy
  • organizational continuous monitoring strategy
  • system-level continuous monitoring strategy
  • plan of action and milestones
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Testing

  • Mechanisms supporting automated monitoring

Other Records

  • procedures addressing continuous monitoring of system controls
  • assessment report
  • system monitoring records
  • impact analyses
  • status reports
  • other relevant documents or records